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Indian peahen - blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
Subject: Indian peahen - blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
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Pavo cristatus - 1790-1796 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ16900217.jpg
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Indian peahen - blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus)


Pavo cristatus
Date 1790-1796
Source/Photographer Martinet, Histoire des oiseaux, peints dans tous leurs aspects, pl. 159
Artist François-Nicolas Martinet (1739–1797)  
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pavo_cristatus_-_1790-1796_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ16900217.tif

The Indian peafowl or blue peafowl (Pavo cristatus), a large and brightly coloured bird, is a species of peafowl native to South Asia, but introduced in many other parts of the world. The male, or peacock, is predominantly blue with a fan-like crest of spatula-tipped wire-like feathers and is best known for the long train made up of elongated upper-tail covert feathers which bear colourful eyespots. These stiff feathers are raised into a fan and quivered in a display during courtship.

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